Light

Quality:

Light - electromagnetic radiation at or near visible wavelengths. Article “Light” in Simple English Wikipedia has 32.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 579^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 333^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1706^th most popular in all topics.

The 1254^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1308^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2110^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6513^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Light” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2110^th place) and written by 25 authors in all languages (6513^th place).

Since the creation of article “Light”, its content was written by 138 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (333^rd place) and edited by 5977 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1254^th place).

The article is cited 415 times in Simple English Wikipedia (7010^th place) and cited 34627 times in all languages (4870^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #25 in May 2004
• Global: #88 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9 in January 2010
• Global: #563 in March 2010

There are 55 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Lys		100
2	English (en) Light		77.4215
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Svjetlost		71.346
4	Esperanto (eo) Lumo		68.8657
5	Hebrew (he) אור		68.4029
6	Finnish (fi) Valo		65.8942
7	German (de) Licht		63.8414
8	Basque (eu) Argi		62.5611
9	Romanian (ro) Lumină		62.4879
10	Galician (gl) Luz		61.9434

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Light		21 636 134
2	Spanish (es) Luz		12 978 834
3	German (de) Licht		4 710 705
4	Portuguese (pt) Luz		2 840 181
5	Russian (ru) Свет		2 835 363
6	French (fr) Lumière		2 774 970
7	Arabic (ar) ضوء		2 642 726
8	Japanese (ja) 光		2 564 057
9	Italian (it) Luce		1 990 405
10	Polish (pl) Światło		1 575 532

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Light		27 631
2	German (de) Licht		4 438
3	Russian (ru) Свет		4 041
4	Spanish (es) Luz		3 850
5	French (fr) Lumière		3 127
6	Japanese (ja) 光		2 671
7	Italian (it) Luce		1 680
8	Chinese (zh) 光		1 649
9	Portuguese (pt) Luz		1 477
10	Vietnamese (vi) Ánh sáng		1 215

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Light		1 084
2	German (de) Licht		499
3	French (fr) Lumière		416
4	Spanish (es) Luz		370
5	Italian (it) Luce		268
6	Hebrew (he) אור		212
7	Dutch (nl) Licht		198
8	Russian (ru) Свет		176
9	Portuguese (pt) Luz		158
10	Turkish (tr) Işık		148

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Licht		5
2	Czech (cs) Světlo		2
3	Spanish (es) Luz		2
4	French (fr) Lumière		2
5	Dutch (nl) Licht		2
6	Arabic (ar) ضوء		1
7	Greek (el) Φως		1
8	Basque (eu) Argi		1
9	Hebrew (he) אור		1
10	Armenian (hy) Լույս		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information